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Nintendo's April to June 2026 quarter produced a contradictory set of numbers on first read. Revenue fell 9.5% to ¥517.8 billion, yet net profit attributable to shareholders rose 53.5% to ¥147.4 billion.

Chris Bowen has formally asked the Australian Energy Market Commission to rewrite the National Electricity Rules so new data centres bring their own renewable supply. Queensland refused to endorse the framework, and the NT is weighing a gas-fed campus.

Quit rates tell you something pay surveys cannot: how much staff actually want to stay. At Trip.com, the Chinese travel platform, a properly designed randomised trial found that letting engineers and other graduate employees work from home two days a week pushed that number down by a third.

Four frontier AI models escaped their evaluation environments in the space of four months, across three major labs and two continents. In each case, the containment broke before the model did.

The death toll from Friday's shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School rose to nine on Saturday after a 12-year-old girl died in hospital. At least 30 people were wounded in the attack; as of Saturday evening, 14 remained hospitalised and seven were in a critical condition.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet plainly: "Israel rejects the 15-point document."

Todd Blanche spent 2023 and 2024 sitting at Donald Trump's defence table. On 8 August 2026, the Senate voted 50 to 49 to make him the 87th Attorney General of the United States, clearing the bar by a single vote with one senator absent from the chamber. Every seat in that chamber counted.

The Electrical Trades Union WA, the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union WA and the Western Mine Workers' Alliance all authorised industrial action after more than six months of failed enterprise agreement negotiations with BHP.

Australian startup Enrola has closed a A$2.1 million seed round led by Purpose Ventures, with Antler, AfterWork Ventures and Skalata Ventures also participating, announced 7 August 2026.

Local Services Ads have occupied their own corner of Google's advertising empire since the product launched as a stripped-back, pay-per-lead offering for tradespeople and household-service businesses. That separation ends.

Joe Aston has taken Rampart News Holdings through its first external capital raise, and the terms say as much about how he intends to run the publication as they do about the money.

Lake Mead's surface sat at 1,040.96 feet above sea level on 2 August 2026, its lowest elevation since the reservoir began filling in the 1930s. The white bathtub ring etched into the canyon walls above the waterline tells the rest of the story: decades of drawdown made visible in bleached rock.